Do you love America?

Cynus · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 557

I'm actually only interested in hearing from posters who answer "yes" and what their reasons are. (If someone wants to start another post called "why do you hate America" for America-haters to post their reasons, that would be OK.)
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gollum · Tar Sands Joined: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Wyoming

Love our country, especially the rich history. Dont have any use for the government.

Micki · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

I'll take some middle ground again.
Worked in Waukesha Wisconsin a month quite a few years ago and the people I worked with were terrific. They took me out for dinners, baseball game, brewery tour, traditional fish fry and a party at some dudes place. It was just great and I felt so at home I could have stayed. (The only other place where I felt people were as genuinly hospitable was Mexico. Sure they have been very nice in SE Asia as well but sometimes it is hard to read the hearts of these people.)
So I guess I was lucky meeting just the nice people and there is another side to the coin that I haven't seen. But overall my impressions on site were great.

The political leadership is however another story...and most people here know my position on that. But in my heart I believe the strings are pulled by people who don't consider themselves American and don't care Americans more than they do for sweatshop workers in Mumbai or Guanzhou. The rest of the leadership will greedily carry out orders to get their reward.
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Pops · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

Well, yea I do.

Mostly because my ancestors have been here for a couple hundred years or more, not been killed off to much, nor taken advantage of more than they allowed, and had as much opportunity to get ahead as they wanted to exercise.

Besides ya gotta love the land of milk and honey when there is always some more land to the west with more...
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DomusAlbion · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

This is one damn good place to live. So much physical beauty and variety and we've still got that Yankee "can do" spirit (well, a lot of us). I truly love it. My mother's side of the family have been here for centuries (even longer if you count the native blood), dad's parents were immigrants in the last century. It didn't work out as well for them, but all their kids did well.
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roccman · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

Sure - what other place can you live where you can blow your entire paycheck on payday at a strip club and still have food to eat and a roof over your head...
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americandream · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

The America of the Redman must have been awesome. The continent has been sadly overrun with mediocrity with the advent of modernism...as has most of this planet.

I often wonder which is preferable, the high probability of few decades at most on a pristine but Darwinian planet, or the increasingly lean possibility of a lifetime to geriatric angst on a polluted planet that pretends to have moved beyond Darwinism.
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mos6507 · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 03, 2007 Posts: 1436

Cid Yama need not post here.

DomusAlbion · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

Cloud9 · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 733

I love this country because it is the future of my family. My fathers are buried in its earth. I will be buried in its earth. My sons will be buried in its earth. Each of us, all of us will do what ever it takes to nurture it, sustain it and protect it.

billp · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

Bas · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

I used to.

- Holland.
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Cloud9 · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 733

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frankthetank · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love America?

Yes. Like many of us have discovered, no place on earth is perfect. I love everything about Wisconsin except for the temperatures Smile

I don't agree with parts of the system, like way to much money spent on military adventures.
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